Amici Urge Supreme Court To Hear Fracking Railway Case Due To Circuit Court Split

(April 12, 2024, 3:22 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multiple parties have filed amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition for review filed by a group that says a lower court erred when it found that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) failed to take a hard look at the risk of wildfire and the impact on groundwater posed by construction of a proposed rail line in Utah that would carry products related to hydraulic fracturing to and from the shale formation in the Uinta Basin.  In one amicus brief, NACCO Natural Resources Corp. says the lower court’s ruling conflicts with the approaches of other federal courts....